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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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INL makes a case for eliminating ALARA and setting higher dose limits
A report just released by Idaho National Laboratory reviews decades of radiation protection standards and research on the health effects of low-dose radiation and recommends that the current U.S. annual occupational dose limit of 5,000 mrem be maintained without applying ALARA—the “as low as reasonably achievable” regulatory concept first introduced in 1971—below that threshold.
Noting that epidemiological studies “have consistently failed to demonstrate statistically significant health effects at doses below 10,000 mrem delivered at low dose rates,” the report also recommends “future consideration of increasing this limit to 10,000 mrem/year with appropriate cumulative-dose constraints.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Marriott 1
Session Chair:
Ray Klann (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Session Organizer:
Sunil S. Chirayath (TAMU)
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Update of Nuclear Responses in the ITER Superconducting Magnets Using the E-lite 360⁰ Analysis Model
10:00–10:20AM EDT
M. Fabbri (Fusion for Energy), R.Pampin (Fusion for Energy), F. Gauthier (ITER Org.), N. Mitchell (ITER Org.), G.Pedroche (Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia), A.Cubi (Latesys)
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Dosimetry for Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Reuven Rachamin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Joerg Konheiser (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Astrid Barkleit (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Marcus Seidl (PreussenElektra)
Benchmarking of Stainless Steel Cube Neutron Leakage in Research Center Rez
10:40–11:00AM EDT
Zdeněk Matěj (Masaryk Univ.), Michal Kostal (Research Centre Rez), Martin Schulc (Research Centre Rez), Evzen Losa (Research Centre Rez), Jan Simon (Research Centre Rez), Evzen Novak (Research Centre Rez), Frantisek Cvachovec (Masaryk Univ.), Vaclav Prenosil (Masaryk Univ.), Filip Mravec (Masaryk Univ.), Tomas Czakoj (Research Centre Rez), Vojtech Rypar (Research Centre Rez), Andrej Trkov (IAEA), Roberto Capote (IAEA)
Weight Values for MCNP Calculations Based on Recursive Monte-Carlo Method
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Pratibha Yadav (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf), Reuven Rachamin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Jörg Konheiser (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
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